Tide Tidbits – December 31, 2009
BCS title game: Tide all business this trip
Alabama will hold its final practice of 2009 today before boarding two charter jets in Birmingham on Friday morning to leave for the West Coast and a BCS National Championship Game showdown with second-ranked Texas on Jan. 7. The top-ranked Tide practiced for the fourth consecutive day since [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 30, 2009
A BIG FINISH
The two-time All-American, potential NFL star and the player currently keeping Texas coaches up at night shuffled through the Alabama football complex Monday wearing shorts with cartoon images of Superman. “My back-to-school shorts,” Terrence Cody explained with a laugh. “I’ve been a Marvel (Comics) fan, man, since I opened my eyes. I love [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 29, 2009
Crimson Tide continues to prepare for Longhorns
Two University of Alabama regulars — cornerback Marquis Johnson and offensive lineman James Carpenter, missed all or part of practice on Monday with health and injury issues, but neither are expected to miss the Crimson Tide’s BCS National Championship Game against Texas on Jan. 7. Carpenter, UA’s starting left [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 28, 2009
Coaching in constant anxiety
With a national title game looming, now is not a time to reflect for Alabama coach Nick Saban, but he once described what he dislikes most about his role. “The worst part of being a coach is you live in a state of constant anxiety, every day, every play, every whatever,” Saban [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 27, 2009
Can Florida find a coach to measure up to Meyer and stand up to Saban?
Not that he needed it, but Nick Saban, the man who has everything, just got another Christmas present. His nemesis just said, ‘‘No mas.” His biggest rival just threw in the white towel. The only man standing between him and world [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 26, 2009
A look at 10 plays that defined Alabama’s season
The University of Alabama’s unbeaten run to the Southeastern Conference Championship and a BCS National Championship berth has been marked with crucial moments that have led the Crimson Tide to victory in games that were in doubt at the time. Although Alabama has navigated the season at [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 25, 2009
McElroy evolves from ‘a guy’ to ‘the guy’
Greg McElroy woke up this Christmas morning in suburban Dallas knowing that, whatever presents are under the tree, what he really wants this year must be earned on Jan. 7. And that’s just fine with him. McElroy has proved he doesn’t mind waiting. His patience has paid off. [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 24, 2009
Texas’ Mack Brown a longtime Crimson Tide admirer
As the younger half of one of Tennessee high school football’s most storied brother duos, Mack Brown always dreamed of playing for a national championship as a college football player. And as he came of age in the 1960s South, he couldn’t help but be aware of the [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 23, 2009
Applewhite credits Saban for success at Texas
Despite rumblings that he left the University of Alabama because he didn’t agree with Nick Saban’s coaching philosophy, Texas running backs coach Major Applewhite said his one season as offensive coordinator of the Crimson Tide was a positive experience. ‘My year at Alabama was a great year,’ Applewhite said [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 22, 2009
Saban doesn’t see Texas as underdog
The notion that an undefeated team from the Big 12 Conference is a decided underdog in a national championship game might be hard to swallow, but that would appear to be the role Texas coach Mack Brown would prefer leading up to his team’s BCS National Championship Game against the [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 21, 2009
Bama ties up loose ends: After awards, recruiting, focus is back on title
The quarterback, by his own admission, has floated more wounded ducks than he would like to see at this advanced stage of the season. The running back’s mother has this big, honking statue in the middle of her kitchen table that’s too heavy [...]
Tide Tidbits – December 20, 2009
Ingram done with Heisman hype
Mark Ingram isn’t saying his life has been turned upside down, but the Alabama sophomore running back didn’t show up for the Crimson Tide’s first bowl practice on Saturday afternoon until minutes before the team meeting. A week after winning the Heisman Trophy, Ingram has put aside a whirlwind week of [...]
